Ep. 1985 - Two Democrats Exposed In MAJOR Sex Scandals
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Not one, but TWO Democrat Senate candidates suffer major sex scandals this weekend. Graham Plattner up in Maine gets caught sexting a bunch of chicks on some creepy perv app, and James Tallarico down in Texas gets caught not being gay. Finally, Democrat Congress ladies make a federal issue whining that they should be allowed to skip work when they are menstruating.
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Democrat Senate candidates suffer major sex scandals this weekend.
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Graham Plattner up in Maine gets caught sexting a bunch of chicks on some creepy perv app.
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And James Tallarico down in Texas gets caught not being gay, allegedly.
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Then the UK bans left-wing streamer Hassan Piker,
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coincidentally, just as I prepare to fly out to the motherland for a debate at the Oxford Union.
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Piker was reportedly banned for anti-Semitic comments, meaning that this issue has something
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to get everyone riled up. Israel, censorship. If it included a transvestite, we would have
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the trifecta. Finally, Democrat Congress ladies make a federal issue whining that they should be
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allowed to skip work when they are menstruating. I, for one, think that their proposed legislation
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does not go nearly far enough. Not only do I think Democrat Congress ladies should stay home
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from work five days per month, I think they should stay home the other 25 days too. How's
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that for bipartisanship? I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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maybe not being gay to start off Pride Month, I want to get to the bigger Democrat scandal right
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Now, Graham Plattner, I haven't covered Graham Plattner that much.
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He's the Democrat Senate candidate who's a little rough around the edges.
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He has the actual version of the fake thing they accused Pete Hegseth of during his Senate confirmation hearings.
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He's threatened all sorts of people, including American servicemen.
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he's said all sorts of nasty terrible things about women and other races and also he's been
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caught sexting a bunch of chicks even though he's married so this according to the wall street
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journal big big story here graham platner's wife flagged the sexually explicit texts to his senate
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campaign subheader wife of the main democratic senate candidate last year told the campaign
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about texts she had found between Plattner and other women. Very, very sad story.
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It's not just being reported in the Wall Street Journal, it's being reported in the New York
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Times. There were some claims that Graham Plattner had been sexting about a dozen women.
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And you know it's a rough situation for the campaign when the campaign's official response
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is that he was only sexting half a dozen women. That's their excuse. That's their denial. No,
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no, no. He wasn't actively sexting a dozen women recently. It was really more like six.
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On top of that, it seems that Graham Plattner has a profile, an active current profile on a
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website called Kik. I don't really know anything about Kik, the app or the website or whatever.
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But according to Daily Wire's own Brent Sher, who is posting this full story from Tim Rice here,
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also at DW. Kick is known as a, quote, predator's paradise. It is known as being a hotbed for child
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pornography, kidnapping, and sexual abuse. This, the Democrat Senate candidate in Maine,
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and one of the Democrat darlings nationwide. Really bad stuff. So as all of these scandals
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are breaking, Graham Plattner's first crisis PR response is to send his wife out to fly cover for
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him no marriage is perfect and i i don't want a perfect marriage i want my marriage and i want
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to be married to graham sorry black flies um i knew the man that i married is
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wonderful and dynamic and probably a genius i knew the man that i married had been through
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an immense amount of violent, active combat. And he's been in therapy for years. I admire the
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out of him. Okay, this is a very long video. We won't subject this poor woman to playing the
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whole thing. The scandal itself is bad. It's not uncommon among politicians. Politicians have sex
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scandals all the time. It's not uncommon. It's bad, though. It's bad to be caught sexting
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half a dozen women and having an active profile on some particularly pervy app with videos of
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kidnapping and child pornography and all the rest. That's quite bad. It's somehow almost worse
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to be caught in this kind of scandal and then send your wife out alone to give the first response.
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this woman who you've wronged to then send her out to fly PR for you and say, oh, no,
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he's a genius and I love him and he's great. And it ups the scumbag quotient on the scandal
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by orders of magnitude. It's so, so bad. So awful to do. It's one thing to have the sex scandal.
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That's really bad enough. But then to exploit the woman who you have wronged, hide behind her
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like a human shield, real scummy stuff. Not all the women who are around Graham Plattner are
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buying it. In fact, his political director, who quit in disgust from his campaign, Genevieve
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McDonald, then posts this. There's some details missing from this story. I hope it will be
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updated. The Wall Street Journal called me Friday morning to tell me they were running a story they
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had verified through multiple sources. I had spoken with them months ago off the record,
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so it was a courtesy call. I'd probably still get some blowback. After Wall Street Journal
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reached out to the Plattner campaign for comment, Morris Katz demanded that I guess who works on
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the campaign, demanded that I call the Wall Street Journal, retract my comments, tell them
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their reporting was inaccurate, and send him a recording of the call. When I refused to lie for
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the Plattner campaign, this is the campaign that this woman worked for until pretty recently at a
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high level. When I refused to lie for the Plattner campaign, he sent this text, quote,
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just want to be clear on where we are right now. If the story goes in its current iteration,
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we will communicate directly on the record and by name that Genevieve violated the personal trust
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of Amy and Graham. Notice they put the poor wife first still. The whole campaign is hiding behind
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the wife. Amy and Graham and shared explicit falsehoods to sabotage the campaign. So I went
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on record with the New York Times. There's a New York Times story on this as well. That's all the
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sex scandal stuff. And then just the violation of the marriage, not even the infidelity, but
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the violation of the trust of the marriage to put the wife out there first. That on top of the fact,
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we keep almost overlooking it at this point. The guy had a Nazi tattoo on his chest. And it's not
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just that he got drunk years ago and he got this tattoo, but then he reformed. He used to be this
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radical neo-Nazi, but then he totally reformed. No, no, no, no, no. He only got the tattoo covered
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up last year. He only got the tattoo covered up when he decided he was going to run for Senate.
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So that's all the context of the scandal. The part that I haven't really seen too many people
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talking about, but this is the obvious part to me, looking at this from a purely political lens
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having spent a little bit of time working on political campaigns in my early life.
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Where are the attacks coming from? I see all these right-wingers. They're jumping on board.
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They're excited. I'm doing it a little myself. It's really fun to dunk on Graham Plattner.
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Do you really think these attacks are originating from the right? Notice where the attacks coming
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from. They're coming from the New York Times, left-wing paper. They're coming from the Wall
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Street Journal news division, not the editorial page. The editorial page is somewhat conservative.
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The news division is liberal, just like all the other newspapers.
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They're coming from a liberal Democrat operative who worked on the Plattner campaign.
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There are multiple stories. There was a story I was meaning to get to for a while now. I don't
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even know. Do I have the printed version? No, I don't. I've been meaning to get to this for a week
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to, the New York Times was already sending out warnings about the Plattner campaign. This was
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weeks ago. This is the left doing damage control. This is Democrat elites realizing that Plattner
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might not go the distance. He's just got too much baggage. And so, crucially, when is the primary?
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Primary hasn't happened yet. The primary is June 9th. We're now eight days away from the primary.
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and according to the election rules in Maine, there are ways out of it for the Democrats.
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The Democrats could replace him right now if they wanted to.
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This is a Democrat op, I think. I think the Democrats are getting cold feet on Plattner
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and they want him out. And they are using Republicans. They're then teeing up the
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Republicans to gin up all of this outrage to give them an excuse to replace their candidate
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with a candidate who's more likely to win in November. That's what I think is going on.
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and they're doing it very very well they're very well it's a smart move if i were a democrat
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operative right now i'd be doing the same thing but republicans should not view this necessarily
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as a win i want graham platner on the ballot in november i want i want republicans to run
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against graham platner he is a weak candidate he's going to go down in flames he's a disaster
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i do not want to give the democrats the opportunity to swap him out when you're analyzing
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political operations. Just full stop, period. When you're analyzing something that's going on
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in politics, the first question you have to ask yourself is nice little Latin phrase,
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cui bono. Who benefits? Who benefits? When any political operation is going on, just say, hold on,
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will the result of this operation be to benefit my side or to hurt my side? In the case of this,
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the Plattner expose, it will hurt Republicans. It will help Democrats if he goes down in flames
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right now and the Democrats can replace him with a good candidate. Basic rule in politics as in war.
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What does your opponent want you to do? You probably shouldn't do that. You should probably
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do the opposite. It's funny. It's great. It's wonderful. Republicans might claim a victory
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if Plattner goes down before the primary or shortly after, but it will be a pyrrhic victory.
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i'm i'm gonna i'm leading the charge i'm the director of republicans for platner
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sign me up where can i i want to go maybe i'll fly up to maine maybe i'll go door to door with
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petitions i want platner to be the democrat nominee we got to save these scandals guys okay
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now speaking of democrat senate sex scandals bigger i i think actually a bigger sex scandal
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has this girlfriend, but we didn't know anything about her. He's got this girlfriend. She goes to
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another school though. No, she goes to a school up in Canada by Niagara Falls. So you probably
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never heard of her. Well, now we know who the girlfriend is, supposedly. This, according to
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the New York Post, the girlfriend is a woman named Brianna Menard. Look, I'm a married man.
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okay, I'm just being objective here. She's a nice looking lady. Nice looking young lady.
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She's 30 years old. She describes herself as a committed vegan. Okay, that checks out for
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a liberal woman. She's a yoga buff, also checks out. She's a cat mom. It's all checks out, right?
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Who likes dancing the night away at the local gay bar, Cheer Up Charlie's, according to her
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biography from the board of a local food co-op. She likes dancing the night away at a local gay
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bar. Now, this makes perfect sense to me because good relationships are based on having something
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in common. So it's nice to hear that Tallarico and his supposed girlfriend, they have something
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in common. They both check off the same box of likes and dislikes on the dating apps.
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The pair met when this woman landed a job at Tallarico's office in 2022,
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though they say they didn't start dating until January of the following year.
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Now, okay, now my spidey senses are really kicking off here.
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I initially was sort of joking when I said that James Tallarico was the gay Pete Buttigieg.
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Okay, she's this woman who is just like a super lib woman who loves hanging out with her gay male friends.
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And all of a sudden, she's the one who pops out as being his girlfriend.
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Okay, well, sometimes plenty of straight women like going to gay bars because they're not being hit on.
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They don't have to deal with very macho men.
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So maybe it could be the case that they're, but then hold on, wait, she works for him too.
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She's like a literally a Democrat operative.
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She's a Democrat operative who loves hanging out with gay guys.
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This is giving me, again, I don't want to, this has happened with Democrat candidates before.
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Democrat candidates with political ambitions, higher office ambitions.
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Again, I don't want to be thrown around accusations.
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when he was running for president, he just coincidentally happens to get the first
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girlfriend that he seems to have ever had. And the girlfriend is a woman who is specifically
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associated with gay rights. And I don't, we've seen this, we've just, it seems to me we've heard
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this song before. The fact that she was actually working for him means she is a Democrat operative
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and was actually on his payroll. And she's the one they trot out. Okay. But then to me,
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the knockout punch is what Tallarico says about her. He says, she is my rock. She is my best
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friend. I don't know if I could have gotten through the last six months of this crazy race
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if she hadn't been by my side. This is how gay guys talk about women. Straight guys don't say
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this. Generally speaking, straight guys don't say she is she is my rock. She is my best friend.
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I don't got guys have best friends and they have wives. And at a really deep level, if you have a
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good marriage, your wife in a deep sense actually is your best friend. But but they are different
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things. The role of the male best friend and the role of the wife, they're actually different
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things. And we don't, usually guys don't refer to their wife as their best friend.
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And certainly they don't refer to their wife as their rock. She is my rock. A wife will refer to
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her husband as her rock because the husband is supposed to be the one who's really grounded,
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really solid, immovable. He's the steadying person in the relationship.
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you don't this this is really come on my spidey senses are going off i don't know i don't
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i don't totally but this seems more scandalous to me than the grand platner story okay now
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let's get to more of the political angle on james tallarico james tallarico has been trotting out
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this same line now for quite a while he's obviously memorized it here is james tallarico
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telling an anecdote from the campaign trail on CBS and MSNBC, not only with the same words,
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but almost with the precise same metering cadence. Well, you know, I've gone to every
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corner of the state over the course of this campaign, from Beaumont to El Paso, from Amarillo
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to Brownsville and everywhere in between. And I can't tell you the number of people who come up
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to me at the end of these events and whisper, I'm not a Democrat, like they're in the witness
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protection program. Okay, so I'm not going to knock and people are making fun of him for using
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this exact line robotically verbatim. Politicians do that. You have a stump speech, you have a few
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lines, you use them, you're talking all the time. I'm not knocking him for that. I'm knocking him
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for the content of what he's saying. Tallarico's claim is that there are a bunch of disillusioned
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Republicans who are really enthusiastic about his campaign. That is not true. That does not exist.
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That's not this guy is as woke as they get. He is the exact antithesis of what the Republicans
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believe in, what even the disaffected liberals who voted for Trump, who just, you know,
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they're not Democrats, they're independents. If they're going to go for a Democrat,
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they're not going for Tallarico. Tallarico is as woke as they get. He calls God non-binary.
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He is extremely sacrilegious and heretical. James Tallarico is the guy who refers to women
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as people with our neighbors with uteruses. It's not that an independent or Republican can never
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go for a Democrat. They will never go for this guy, never go for this guy. That's a total lie.
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So what is the race going to tell you? Tallarico could win this race. He could win this race.
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I'm not betting that he will, but he could. He's a real threat. But he will not win because
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disillusioned Trump voters vote for him. That's not what's going to happen. If he wins, he will
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win because disillusioned Trump voters stay home, because they're upset about the economy,
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because they're upset about the war in Iran, because they're upset about this, that, or the
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other thing. It is very possible, especially in the midterm year, first one after the big
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presidential win. There's historical precedent and historical pressure for those disillusioned
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Trump voters to stay home, but they will not vote for this guy. So this to me is the test
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for MAGA in the midterms. And it's very high stakes. Trump owns the GOP. He has just proven
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his ironclad grip on the GOP because he took out those five Republican legislators in Indiana
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who turned against him because he took out Bill Cassidy in Louisiana, because he took out Thomas
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Massey in Kentucky, because he took out Brad Raffensperger in Georgia. The list goes on and
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on and on. Trump owns the GOP. He has massive approval ratings within the GOP and certainly
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within MAGA. And the question is, will his low approval ratings with the general population
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overwhelm that? Will the median voter be so disillusioned by Trump that the people who gave
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Trump a popular vote victory in 2024 will wipe him out in the midterms? That's the question.
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But the thing Tallarico is promising that they're all going to flip to him, never going to happen.
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In some ways, it's worse. Trump has activated an historic coalition. We haven't seen anything like
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it since Reagan. And maybe it might even be bigger than Reagan, given the polarity of the electorate
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right now. So the question for the midterms is, will Trump's coalition have really collapsed?
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Will it have lost its potency? So he's got an ironclad grip, but it's an ironclad grip on a
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shrinking segment of the electorate. Or is that all fake news from social media ginned up by
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operatives, domestic and foreign? And does Trump still have his finger on the pulse of the American
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people? Very worrisome approval rating numbers coming out of the public opinion polls in the
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US. That's the question. But the one option that you're not going to get is Republicans voting for
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Tallarica. Never going to happen. If Tallarica wins, it will be because of an implosion,
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a great diminishing of the size of Trump's coalition. Okay. Now, speaking of Democrats
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in Congress, Democrat Congress ladies, some pretty prominent ones like Rashida Tlaib are
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now openly campaigning, making a federal issue of the fact that they're expected to go to work
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when they are menstruating. And I, I'm actually, I'm on their side. There's a lot more to say
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or is it something deeper? I sit down with Nathan, a real-life furry, to find out what
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really happens behind the fursuit. There have been some interviews in recent years as the furry
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phenomenon has become more of a national issue. But usually they're just kind of making fun of
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people or it's like a joke or a troll or whatever. I actually want to understand what the furry thing
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is. I'm curious. I heard about it for the first time when I was a freshman in college and I didn't
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even understand what people were making the jokes about. So anyway, I sit down for a two-hour
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interview with a furry. I think we uncover a lot. Here is this teaser. Do you think your life would
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If I wasn't a furry, well, I'd probably be dead.
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And he said that he saw a big STD screening booth.
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Would you take your head off, your fur head off,
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watch full episode right now on the michael mills youtube channel for the uncensored ad
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free version subscribe to daily wear plus congress ladies are very upset they they are
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expected to come to work when they're menstruating you know they're uh they're feeling a little
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uncomfortable about five days a month and they're expected to show up to work on those five days so
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a gaggle of these women, including Rashida Tlaib, are setting out to change all of that.
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Every month, I have days where it feels like barbed wire is tightening inside me.
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I've taken 2,000 milligrams of ibuprofen in 24 hours and still been in tears from the pain.
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Often end up on the bathroom floor, in the fetal position, crying, moaning, or vomiting.
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Still, I've put on a blazer and gone to work. I've sat in committee hearings,
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nauseous from the pain, quietly breathing to make my way through it. I've given speeches at rallies
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and run town halls while my body was in full revolt. I smiled for photos while silently
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wondering if I might faint right then and there. In fact, about 15% of women have period pain so
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debilitating that it disrupts worker school. That is no small number, and yet we are told to suck it
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up. It's why during Women's History Month, I've introduced legislation to give workers up to
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12 days of paid leave a year for reproductive health this would cover period pain yes but
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also menopause symptoms ivf miscarriages endometriosis flare-ups and okay so the woman
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she wants a lot of time off because she's a woman because she's a woman and she menstruates and it's
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i'm sure it is painful for that week every month she doesn't want to have to go to work
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for five for five days a month whatever however many days per year but it's because of this thing
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that happens five days per month. And so I would say I'm on their side. I'm on their side. I'm on
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the side of Rashida Tlaib. I'm on the side of the Democrat Congress ladies. But I would go further.
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I don't think it's enough that we should let these women stay home from work five days a month. I
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think we need to, in the interest of equality, gender fairness, we need to go much further.
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I think these women should be allowed to stay home from work for 30 to 31 days per month,
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except in February, where it'd be 28 to 29 days. I think they should. And look, maybe I'm the most
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feminist. Maybe I need to get up there and say, you women, you're being misogynistic. Women need
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to be allowed to stay home from work every single day of the month. Can you believe this? Yes,
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I'm sure you can believe this, you watching this, because you have common sense. But it is so funny.
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It's so ironic and so predictable that these women, specifically these women, the liberal
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Democrat women, the feminist liberal Democrat women have been telling us for 60 years,
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they've been demanding and whining, saying, please let us go to work. Please let us have
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professional jobs. Please let us go to the office. We demand it. And then when they get to do all
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that, they immediately turn around and they say, stop making us go to work. Why are you making us
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go to work. For 60 years, it's been misogyny, hatred of women to not tell them to go to work.
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And now that we say, okay, go to work, they say, stop. It's misogyny to make us go to work.
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Don't you know we're women? Why are you making us show up to the office? Don't you know we're
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women? We get cramps. We menstruate. Why are you making us go to work? Hold on. 60 years,
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that's what we were saying 60 years ago. And then you told us not to pay attention to that.
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And now how can, it's, it's kind of like, it's kind of like when you get into a debate or an
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argument with a woman during precisely that time of the month, it's kind of, it's sort of like
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that, isn't it? Where there's no, it's not always the most rational debate and some, and you can't
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ever win. And you're like always the bad guy. And wow, huh? Funny. If only we had a system,
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could you imagine if we had this system in society, how fair would this be? How equal
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what would this be? If we had a system that allowed women to stay home from work all the
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time, that allowed women to, because of their biology in part, because of their natural
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inclinations, that just allowed, if only we could acknowledge that men and women are different.
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Like we did for all of human history until the mid to late 1960s. And now those very same women
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who demanded that we stop admitting that men and women are different. Now they're demanding we
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admit that again. Most women don't want to go to work in an office. Women work all the time.
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Women work a lot. And probably minute by minute of doing stuff, women maybe work more than men.
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Men work more intensely, more publicly at times. Men carry more stress at times,
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higher intensity of stress. But women probably carry stress more of the time and do work things
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more of the time, I would say, if you're managing a home, especially if you're expected to have a
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job at the office too. But imagine if we had this system in society where the men could go out and
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do the office job, because they don't cramp up once a month unless they go out and eat too many
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chicken wings or something like that. And where the men do that, and then the women have different
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expectations and can do different things that perhaps they're more naturally inclined to do.
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The vast majority of women don't want to work. They don't want to work in an office. They don't
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want to work a regular job. And one of the real tragedies of our current economy, which we came
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about in large part because of feminism, is that now women are expected to work most of the time
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and in some cases financially kind of have to because our political economy has been transformed
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such that it's very difficult to support a family on a single income. But that's a pity. That's a
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tragedy. That's not progress. This was one thing during the first Trump administration where I say
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Trump gets it right 98.7% of the time. He gets it right the vast majority of the time. But one of
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the things that used to rub me the wrong way is when President Trump would tout how we had a
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record low women's unemployment rate. And I said, well, is that something we should be happy about?
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That women are now being forced out of the home to work in an office for Mr. McGillicuddy at the
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widget factory? I don't think that's a good thing. I get, there are some women who want to work in
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an office. There's the Lady Thatcher exception. You know, it's a diverse world and vive la difference
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as it were, but that's the exception. I work with some of these women. Some women, they really want
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to do it. And they're a little bit different and they're really great at it. But the majority of
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women don't want to work. They often want the income, but they don't want to work
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because they want to stay home and raise their kids because they want to keep home because
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sometimes they actually do want to cook and maintain a house. I know you're not allowed
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to say that anymore, but they do because you talk about you're not allowed to say it because
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sometimes for about five days a month, they're really, really uncomfortable. Democrat Congress
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ladies get to say that when they're complaining about it, but conservative men are not allowed
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to say that when we just observe a natural fact. Most women don't actually want to work in an
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office. A lot of women are not cut out to work in offices. That's fine. That's good. Men and women
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have different virtues. Now that we have the most liberal, feminist, screechy women in America
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openly complaining about this fact, can we acknowledge reality and maybe go back to what
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worked for all of human history to some degree. Can we at least give women the option of staying
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home? Can we transform our political economy in such a way that we get to return to normal
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and in so doing restore it, the fundamental political unit, which is the family
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without which you cannot have a functioning polity, the breakdown of which probably explains
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90% of our political problems. Can we do that? Are we allowed to do that? Okay. Speaking of
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staying home. Amazing timing. I'm flying out tomorrow to go for a debate at the Oxford Union.
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If you're in or around Oxford in the UK, I hope you come out. It's going to be a lot of fun.
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The resolution is this house believes that Trump has betrayed conservatism. I'll be speaking in
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the negative on that. It should be a great debate. So I'm about to fly out to the UK.
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Just as I am preparing to take off, we get word that Hassan Piker, the left-wing streamer who's
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regularly called for violence against conservatives. He has been banned from the UK. This is an
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unrelated trip. He wasn't going to go up to the Oxford Union, though I think they hosted him
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somewhat recently. But he was going to go to the UK to do, I don't know, to whatever, undermine the
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West, as he usually does. And he's been banned from the UK. And this issue, I think, is really
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going to separate the men from the boys. By which I mean, it's going to separate the conservatives
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from the libertarians on how people react to this. We'll get to why Hassan was supposedly banned.
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First, though, my favorite comment on Friday is from Cornbread Oracle, who says Epstein is not a
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Trump scandal. It is a Trump smear. There's a difference. I know. Are y'all ready for that?
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Are you all ready to handle that? I talk about this in my episode on Friday. If you want to
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catch why this is the case, it's not that there is no Epstein scandal. There certainly is. It
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started out as a Democrat scandal. It's not that there's no Epstein scandal. It's that the practical
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effect of Epstein is to be used as a political smear against Trump. And some people on the
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right or falling for it. Hassan Piker has been banned from the UK. Here is why, according to
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Hassan wearing his Democratic Socialists of America cap. Dear Hassan Doan Piker, your UK ETA
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has been canceled. This means you cannot travel to the UK without a visa. This is because your
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presence in the UK is not considered to be conducive to the public good. You cannot appeal
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this decision. Apply for a visa. If you still want to travel to the UK, you need to apply for a visa
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so we can consider your circumstances in more detail.
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Having your ETA canceled does not mean you will be refused a visa.
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I genuinely, listen, I'm going to say something.
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The Western world and liberal democracy is a sham.
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And all of the supposed things that they claim to care about,
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We are moving into a very different timeline, okay?
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This is why I constantly reiterate that fascism is here.
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right like the administration trying to deploy subpoenas against political dissidents in the
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united states of america like him um or or the uk that's like completely captive to the interests of
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of uh pro-israel advocacy organizations there it is like they are moving in a way uh and this is
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the liberal government right the labor government is supposed to be the liberal government doing this
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and the american government is the right-wing government doing it like we are we are in the
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1930s era. We're in the 1930s era, that famously phylo-Semitic era, the 1930s.
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Hassan Piker, he gets it right there at the end. He blames Israel. He says, it's because I'm anti-Israel.
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That is why I've been banned from the UK. Glenn Greenwald, the left-wing journalist who has
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gotten some play on the right. I never fell for Glenn Greenwald's schtick. Some people on the
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right fell for Glenn Greenwald for a while. This guy is a left-wing homosexual. He's got a lot of
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personal problems we don't need to get into, but very, very left wing. But because he agreed with
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us one time on like COVID or something, I don't even remember what he agreed with us on. The
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right started to embrace him. But this guy is about as left wing as they come. Glenn Greenwald
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comes out. He says, note that the UK government just banned entry of two American citizens,
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Cenk Uygur. Oh yeah, Cenk Uygur, Hassan Piker's uncle got lumped in with this,
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which is too bad. I actually have a moderate affection for Cenk Uygur. If I were working
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for the UK government, I probably would have let him in. Hassan Piker though, he calls for
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violence against conservatives. He has broken American federal law and bragged about doing it.
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He conspires with foreign governments, allegedly, admittedly, I guess we should say. So this guy,
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he's no, I would definitely would have banned Hassan Piker. I think he should be in prison.
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His uncle, I might've let off the hook. He's a sort of entertaining lib. But in any case,
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Glenn Greenwald says the UK government just banned the entry of two American citizens,
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including Hassan Piker, not because they criticized or worked against the entrance
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of the UK. It was solely because they criticize and oppose the one country deemed sacred and
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off limits in the UK and so many other Western countries, Israel. Folks, you know, I have a
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pretty moderate view on Israel, which is the least popular view. That's why I take attacks from both
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sides on it because it's the moderate and sensible and common sense view, which is the one view you're
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not allowed to have. Point out, I'm not a Zionist by any religious or ideological standard, but I'm
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not one of these like Keffiyeh people with Greta Thunberg, you know, marching for Gaza, you know,
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river to the sea, whatever, which is all left-wing nonsense anyway. And in any case, I think that
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there are legitimate rights of Palestinian Arabs that need to be protected, especially the Christian
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population. So in that way, Israel needs to be restrained. Anyway, I have this very moderate
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view, which is the one view you're not allowed to have. It's the view that requires you to have
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the most moral clarity on the issue at all, and it's always punished. But in any case,
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enough of my soapbox. I can't help but point out here, as Glenn Greenwald and Hassan Piker
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are trying to blame all of this on Israel. The U.K. currently bans two senior members of the
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Israeli government from the U.K. So it's because the U.K. is totally captive to the pro-Israel
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interests. That's why they're banning Hassan Piker and two senior members of the Israeli
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government because they're so pro-Israel. Hold on. The finance minister and the national security
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minister, Bezalel Smotrich, I don't know if I'm pronouncing that correctly, and Itamar Ben-Gavir
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are both banned from the UK. The UK has further gone out and said that if Benjamin Netanyahu
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sets foot on British soil, he will be arrested for war crimes because the ICC is trying to arrest
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him. You're telling me that the way to explain why Hassan Piker is not going there is because he's
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anti-Israel and the UK is so slavishly pro-Israel that it would ban multiple senior members of the
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Israeli government? Give me a break. The UK just banned Valentina Gomez. Valentina Gomez,
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who is this kind of eccentric, right-wing political influencer. She's run for office
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once or twice. She is exceedingly pro-Israel. She filmed a video where she was eating popcorn
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watching Israel bomb Gaza. It's just not, whatever you think about Israel, it is simply not the case
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that you can explain this ban solely by saying that Hassan Piker is anti-Israel. It just doesn't
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explain it. Because it doesn't explain the bannings of the Israeli politicians or Valentina Gomez,
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who's a super duper extra mega Zionist. Do you know why the UK banned Hassan Piker?
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Because he's not good for their country. It's not good to have him. He doesn't benefit them
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by his presence. He's a bad dude. We don't want him. That's what they said. They said,
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he's a bad dude. We don't want him. He's not good for us. So he's not coming in.
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And guess what? That's very sensible. Guess what? We should learn from that.
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And I guess we are learning from that in the sense that we are now sending out subpoenas to Hassan
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Piker because he has admitted to federal crimes on air multiple times. That's good. I wish we
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would move even faster. This one is going to separate the conservatives from the libertarians
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and the classical liberals. Some who say, we know, no, we need total free speech. First of all,
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first of all, the kind of speech, quote unquote, that Hassan Piker engages in is not even protected
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by the First Amendment. There's no First Amendment in the UK. There's no free speech in the UK.
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But even by the standards of the American First Amendment, the American free speech tradition,
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the sulfurous belches that come out of Hassan Piker's mouth are not protected speech. He calls
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for the murder of Republican senators and other conservatives. He conspires with foreign government.
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None of that is protected by the First Amendment.
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James Madison would have no problem sending Hassan Piker to jail.
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But certainly, we wouldn't want a guy like this in our country.
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The only reason he's allowed in our country is because he's an anchor baby who grew up overseas.
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And then because of a flaw in our jurisprudence, we had to let him back in.
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All the UK is saying is, oh, this foreigner, he's not good for us.
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Israel this that or the other thing by their own actions you can tell that's not so they're just
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saying this guy's not good for us we don't want him in that should be our standard too we have
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let 70 million people come into our country over the last 65 years largest movement people in the
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history of the world in recorded history certainly and we've done it because we we feel handcuffed
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by some stupid liberal principles that that aren't correct if people aren't good for our country we
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shouldn't let him in. Good lesson. Good lesson from the motherland. I love this. It's also funny
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on the Israel issue. I decided to test this theory last night because people have, getting back to
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the sort of moderate, sensible position on Israel-Palestine, I say, it's a complex issue.
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It's a nuanced issue, you know, and that's the one view you're not allowed to have. So last night,
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I just post on Twitter. I say, hey, hey, what's everyone think about Israel? You know, my UK trip,
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it's going to be expensive. I need to get that engagement up. I got to get those Twitter bucks.
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what's everyone think about Israel? So it's an obvious troll. It's just like a joke. I wake up
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this morning, 3000 comments, 3000 replies to an, to obvious bait. By the time I get to work,
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it's 3,200. So anyway, I've decided I'm going to try this on YouTube too. What do you think
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about Israel? Hey guys, all the, everyone watching on YouTube right now, what do you think about
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Israel? I get that engagement up. What do you think about Israel? Do you like, do you like it
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or not like it? What? Is it controversial or something? What do you think? One thing I'll
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tell you is your views on it are not going to be the chief reason you're banned from the UK.
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Okay. One story before we go. A little bit more of a serious story. A father has gone viral for
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testimony that actually took place a little while ago when he was screaming at Democrats over his
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father's murder. And this has prompted some Republican legislators in South Carolina to
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announce something called Logan's Law. This was announced at a press conference at the Myrtle
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Beach, Police Department Annex, Myrtle Beach, last Wednesday. What is the law in response to?
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It's in response to this. Think about your child coming home from a night out with their friends,
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laying down, going to sleep, feeling somebody come in the room and wake them
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and drag her out of bed naked, forced on her knees with her hands over her head.
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times 25 felonies was on the street. How about that? How good are we doing for our family?
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How good are you doing for your kids? He should have been in jail for over 140 years for all
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the crimes he committed. You know how much time he spent in prison? A little over 600
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days in 10 years. He's only 30 years old. He was committing 2.65 crimes a year since he was 15
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years old, but nobody could figure out that he couldn't be rehabilitated. Well, you'd have to
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put him in prison to see if he could be rehabilitated. Isn't that the idea of prison?
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It's a poor guy. Your heart breaks for the father, obviously for the poor girl who was murdered.
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39 times 39 times this guy was arrested he barely serves time in prison it's not it's not that a
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terrible crime took place it because crimes are going to take place because it's a fallen world
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it's not it's not that we're asking for perfection it's not that we're asking for utopia
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but this was so preventable it was 39 times preventable and left-wing politicians refuse
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to do it. They gum up the works because they're always on the side of the criminals. And so
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the criminals go out and they just execute young girls like this. And this reminds me of something
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about politics, which is that politics is actually very, very simple. Politics is so simple. It's not
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brain surgery. It's not philosophy. It's not anything complex. It's not easy always to
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affect political solutions. That could be hard, but it's very, very simple. Voters want three
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numbers to go up. Voters want the economic numbers to go up, the deportation numbers to go up,
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and the incarceration numbers to go up. This is the secret recipe for any Republican politician.
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I'm just doling out tried and true advice for free. Hard to affect sometimes, but easy to
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diagnose, at least if you're not totally insane. We want three numbers to go up. The economic numbers,
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unfortunately. Foreign policies, people on the internet feel very strongly about foreign policy,
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doesn't really motivate voters much at all. Occasionally, the 2006 election, maybe, you know,
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the Iraq war was at its peak, but otherwise that doesn't really motivate people. Simple stuff.
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People want to be able to afford to have a good life for their material needs. They don't want
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foreigners raping our constitutional system of government, making a mockery of our sovereignty.
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